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On the 8th of July, 1677, Margaret Brewster with four other Friends went into the South Church in time of meeting, "in sack-cloth, with ashes upon her head, barefoot, and her face blackened," and delivered "a warning from the great God of Heaven and Earth to the Rulers and Magistrates of Boston. " For the offence she was sentenced to be "whipped at a cart's tail up and down the Town, with twenty lashes. "
SHE came and stood in the Old South Church, / A wonder and a sign, / With a look the old-time sibyls wore, / Half-crazed and half-divine.